NAA Board and NAA Members
The purpose of the Nevada Archaeological Association (NAA) is to preserve Nevada's antiquities, encourage the study of archaeology and to educate the public to the aims of archaeological research.
Eva is currently the Cultural Resource Manager for Great Basin National Park working in Baker, NV. She earned a degree in History with a minor in Anthropology from Weber State University in Ogden, UT. Moving to Las Vegas to continue archaeology studies, she studied with Margaret Lyneis and completed an MA in Anthropology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Eva worked at the Lost City Museum as Archaeologist/Curator for 11 years before moving north to the cold country of Nevada to work for the National Park Service. Her research interests include prehistoric pottery, obsidian source and hydration, and prehistoric salt mining. Eva has been involved with public public archaeology teaching classes and developing public education programs in archaeology for over 20 years. Eva helped develop the site steward program in Clark County as well as the statewide site steward program in Nevada. A member of the NAA since 1998, Eva joined the board of directors in 2003 and served as treasurer before becoming president in 2008.
Lynn states: when my high school counselor insisted that I choose a college and a major to pursue, it hit me like lightning -- ARCHAEOLOGY!!!!!!!! This was in 1967, in Whittier, California. The next year, off to UC Davis I went. I’ve never regretted my choice. My summers were spent working for food, sometimes for wages at digs near Taos, New Mexico, and near Melones and Bodfish in California. Ironically, the 1970 summer UCD field school that many of my cohorts attended (people like Brian Hatoff and Todd Ruhstaller), but which I could not afford was Dave Hurst Thomas’s immortal dig at Gatecliff Shelter in Nevada’s Monitor Range. This missed connection only dawned on me in 2002. Simple twist of fate! Lynn obtained her B.A. degree in Anthropology in 1972, bummed around from dig to dig, often for the California State Department of Parks and Recreation, getting to know places like Fort Ross, Old Sacramento, Coloma, Columbia S.H.P., Malakoff Diggings, and Angel Island. Invaluable experience with wonderful co-workers. She spent the summer of 1977 surveying on Alaska’s North Slope (1977), the fall on Washinton’s Chief Joseph Dam Project, then projects with CRM companies throughout Central California. The she landed in Carson City, Nevada in 1984 to work for Intermountain Research. Until October 2010, she lived and worked in Nevada, doing archaeology and architectural survey for many different companies - a 25 year run. Her main interests are historic period archaeology, clothing button analysis, ceramic, glass, shoe, can, and other artifact analyses, and more recently historic architecture. Lynn received her M.A. in Anthropology from UNR in 1999, under Dr. Don Hardesty. Presently, she’s back in Whittier, taking care of her Mom and working part-time from home for Nevada CRM firms. She is pleased to be able to continue serving the NAA as secretary for the next year (2011).
Elizebeth received her BA in Sociology and Anthropology from San Jose University. She is a retired elementary school teacher. She is currently one of two Site Steward Regional Coordinators for Lincoln County and instructs site stewardship training classes. She is the Liason Officer between the NAA and SHPO. She is also the President of the Lincoln County Chapter of the NAA.
Craig is currently the Cultural Resources Group Lead for AMEC’s Reno office. He grew up in Colorado and received his BA in Anthropology from Boise State University in 1997. While at Boise, he developed a love for Great Basin archaeology that has stayed with him ever since. After graduating from BSU, Craig worked on archaeological jobs in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, New Mexico, Nevada, and Texas before obtaining his MA at California State University, Chico. He graduated in 2005. While at Chico, he applied a large chemical sourcing and artifact dataset to explore Archaic mobility patterns within the central Great Basin. In addition to interests in prehistoric mobility, Craig’s active interests include organization, and technological responses to environmental stress. As well, he is interested in developing methodological approaches to quantify lithic raw material quality with the ultimate goal of modeling behavior associated with raw material procurement and developing methods to predict where such unique resources as bow stave trees, game drives, and wikiups are located.
Karla grew up in Northern Idaho and has always enjoyed learning about the past. She attended the University of Idaho from 1998 - 2003, where she received a Bachelor’s degree in Anthropology. She moved to Nevada in 2007 when she began working for the National Park Service. She is currently the park Archaeologist at Great Basin National Park. Karla enjoys the mix of the material culture and the written record of Historic Archaeology. She has been an NAA Board Member since 2010.
Dr. Mark Giambastiani has more than 20 years experience in conducting Phase I (Survey), Phase II (Testing), and Phase III (Data Recovery) studies throughout California and Nevada and has served as Principal Investigator on many different projects of all phases in both states. His regional expertise centers in the Mojave Desert, where he has worked for many years on major military installations (Fort Irwin, Edwards Air Force Base, Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake), and in the Great Basin, where he has completed many different projects for various federal agencies (U.S. Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Reclamation, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) and private enterprises (mining, water, and alternative energy development). Dr. Giambastiani has also led and/or participated in a number of archaeological projects for Caltrans in Kern, Mono, Inyo, and other counties for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and for the Fort Hunter Liggett military installation on the California coast. Dr. Giambastiani’s doctoral dissertation focused on prehistoric obsidian use on the Volcanic Tableland in Owens Valley, Inyo County. He specializes in prehistoric archaeology, being an expert in artifact analysis and in the study of lithic technology, obsidian use and conveyance, toolstone exploitation, and subsistence/settlement reconstruction. He is also learned in historical archaeology, particularly in Nevada, and has extensively studied topics such as charcoal production, Depression-era mining, and early military forts.
Sali is the Site Stewardship Coordinator for the State of Nevada administered through the State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) located in Las Vegas, Nevada at the Nevada State Museum. Her duties include coordinating site steward activities with participating state and federal public land managing agencies and organizations to assist in the monitoring and protection of archaeological, historic, and paleontological resources. This involves training, maintaining a statewide database of sites and steward activities, developing reporting standards, participating in public outreach and promoting teamwork between federal and state agencies, volunteers, tribes and professional archaeologists. |
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Eva Jensen - President
George Phillips - Treasurer
Lynn Furnis - Secratary
Susan Edwards - Membership
Elizebeth Russell - Member at Large (Site Steward Liason)
Craig Hauer - Member at Large (Newsletter Coordinator)
Karla Jageman - Member at Large (Webmaster)
Mark Giambastiani - Member at Large
Jeff Wedding - Member at Large
Sali Underwood - State Site Stewardship Coordinator, SHPO